From: Dominick Grift <dominick.grift@defensec.nl>
To: selinux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: systemd.exec(5) PAMName= with libselinux
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2025 10:47:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87jz42dj60.fsf@defensec.nl> (raw)
systemd has an identity directive called PAMName= which allows you to
run a unit with a specified PAM stack. The issue here is that in this
case the "session leader" is always systemd.
Thus you get into issues with pam_selinux because since systemd is for
example always associated with "init_t" you can't really specify log
SELinux identity foo_u in with foo_r:foo_t:s0 if this PAM stack is used
and log SELinux identity foo_u in with bar_r:bar_t:s0 if that PAM stack
is used.
This previously was not a big issue since this feature is pretty niche
but with the advent of `run0` it became an issue since that relies on
PAMName=
The problem is that pam_selinux is often already used to start the
systemd --user instance, for example:
/etc/selinux/TYPE/contexts/users/foo_u (/etc/pam.d/systemd-user):
system_r:init_t:s0 foo_r:foo_systemd_user_instance_t:s0
So you can't add the following because it would conflict
/etc/selinux/TYPE/contexts/user/foo_u (/etc/pam.d/run0):
system_r:init_t:s0 foo_r:foo_shell_t:s0
Ideas? Suggestions?
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next reply other threads:[~2025-07-21 8:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-07-21 8:47 Dominick Grift [this message]
2025-07-22 19:06 ` systemd.exec(5) PAMName= with libselinux Stephen Smalley
2025-07-22 19:31 ` Dominick Grift
2025-07-23 19:16 ` Dominick Grift
2025-07-24 5:34 ` Dominick Grift
2025-09-29 2:29 ` Rahul Sandhu
2025-09-30 20:01 ` Stephen Smalley
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